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I keep looking this up and I know it works.

Sending the LINQ To SQL log to the debugger output window

I have several clickonce deployments. And it gets old having to manually increament my version numbers in the AssemblyInfo file especially when my deployment method does that on it’s own.

So… Here’s my solution. Read more…

There are days when I really wonder about people and their thought process. OK. I wonder every day, but that’s a different issue.

Please read: http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/12/swat-team-takes-down-man-armed-with-lego-gun/

First thought: I gotta get one of those!

Second thought: Why do people freak out so badly when there isn’t a problem yet act like total sheep when there really IS a problem? His own office mates didn’t think anything of it. They already know about his LEGO obsession. Yet some nosey woman spots his from outside the building and makes the mad dash to call 911. SWAT comes blazing in. It’s amazing to me that no one was shot. <sigh>

We can’t be bothered to take care of our children or create an open society where disagreements are allowed and even encouraged. Yet, we can narc on anyone without a single scrap of fact.

Wonderful.

Jumping to conclusions is the only sport we excel at. Maybe that guy with the LEGO gun needs to do a few laps for his shortsightedness. After all he was playing with a toy in his own office, with the door closed.

It is a crazy world.

The woman asked what I knew about the shootings in Texas. My reply was basically, “Just another whacko that couldn’t handle what they asked for. If you join the Army, odds are you are going to war. When you’re a lifer, it should be a given. He didn’t want to be deployed, couldn’t get out of it, freaked out and lost it. Simple. Disappointing. Let him rot.”

So she started looking it up online. I looked over her shoulder and saw a BIG ad for hotels at Fort Hood. 75% off room rates. Being me I had to comment.

“Hey look at that! Boy look at that deal. I’m sure they are hurting for customers, now that the population has dropped.”

“You know, you are a truly horrible person sometimes…”

“I thought I was a retched human being?”

“That too”

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I just realized something. My new glasses give 2D images a 3D quality.

One downside of my constant computer use is the damage it has done to my eyes. The first time I had problems with my eyes and vision induced headaches was back in college. I was leading a team of drafters drawing floor plans for grocery store end caps. It was a subcontracting gig. We’d get large piles of hand done drawings, done on grid paper. The team would convert the drawings into AutoCAD drawings. My job was to hand-out the daily work items and validate the results. So I spent hours hunched over drawings, comparing line drawings printed from AutoCAD against the hand-drawn field drawings. My eyes suffered. Read more…

I signed up for Live Mesh this morning. I’m curious, but not super excited about it. It is still in the beta phase so it could crash and burn at any moment, but it is still worth looking at. I usually carry around a hard drive with all of my music and code samples. This might save me a lot of that hassle/risk. If I copy my music to a local disc (update as needed) and throw all of my code files into the cloud, I might be able to skip the whole thing. I do have backups of the disc from the nightly Home Server backup process, but it is still a hassle and a risk to carry around a hard drive all of the time.

At the office, I need to repair a RAID disc failure, get another backup protocol online and then start looking at backing everything up to the cloud. I am thinking JungleDisc might be the way to go based upon the current situation. Anything that I can reduce a process to a one-click and/or a click-and-forget is very good thing.

It’s all about data storage and retrieval. I wonder if MS has anything available to BizSpark members…

References:

Live Mesh
mesh.com

Jungle Disk
http://jungledisc.com/

Super colliders fail because of time travelers.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/10/is-a-time-travelling-higgs-sab.html

Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease.
http://www.javaworld.com/community/node/3530

And for the gear heads…
GIpro X-Type - Gear Indicator
http://www.pashnit.com/product/gipro_x_type.html

“Yes, have some.”

I’ve been up to my eye-balls in WPF development lately. It is a bit different from ASP.Net and WinForm development. I found a utility today that helps me understand exactly what is going on with the UI: Snoop. Snoop can “see” all WPF apps running. You can examine the logical tree and even map UI elements to specific items on the UI surface. (Ctrl + Shift + Mouse-Over the UI element)

Snoop:
http://blois.us/Snoop/

Enjoy,

Maybe it’s just me, but there’s something really wrong about this image. Why is Glenn Danzig surrounded by lilies?

Picture if you will… A slightly sleepy programmer, typing away at his keyboard with Kingdom Come’s Get It On playing through the headphones.

Yes. I am a child of the 80s.

I have noticed some issues with Windows 7.

1. Media Player doesn’t work. Period. It never loads. It always crashes with a “Server execution failure.” I don’t know why and I haven’t had the time to reserach the issue. I’ve tried files on my local hard drive and files on my Home Server. It doesn’t matter.
2. Windows Explorer isn’t refreshing. I worked on an invoice for a client last night. I copied an old invoice and renamed it. The result of the rename didn’t display. In other words, the window content stayed the same as before I renamed the file. I double clicked on the file and got a “File does not exist error.” I manually refreshed the page and there was my renamed file. Rather odd I should think.”
3. Warhammer has no sound. I’m still getting sound from the desktop, but not from within the game. I really don’t like that. I prefer to hear when someone is taking a swing at me.

I wonder what other issues will appear.

So am I an early adopter if I switched to the new O/S before it’s general release? I waiting until the RTM dropped and I HAD to do something about the systems at the office. I never considered Vista a viable desktop. I realize I’m beating a dead horse. Whatever.

I suppose it is a fundamental topic. Why do need to fully understand how our data is being used?

“Because we do” doesn’t seem to work.

So baffle them with BS or at least bury them in jargon. Phil Factor has a couple posts of this topic.

The Joy of Data Modelling
The Data Dialog

I started looking through my stuff (parts inventory) and realized I don’t have a compatible video card or DVD burner for my new machine. Oops. Back to computer shop to get more doodads.

Have I told you lately, just how much I hate dealing with hardware?

Win 7 Ultimate downloaded.

“So what’s the difference between Ultimate and Enterprise?”
“The license key.”
“So I should be using Enterprise for my domain attached development workstation?”
“Yes.”
“Crap. <sigh> It only took 6 hours to download Ultimate…”

Instead of eating lunch, I picked up hardware to build up a new development workstation. I think I know what I’m doing tonight when I get home. I guess I’ll load Ultimate and see what’s what before I worry about the Enterprise issue.